18th October 2019.
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This week we spoke to Miss Bell, Teaching scholar and SEN administrator<br />
at King’s…<br />
Do you have a flightpath?<br />
I do have a flight path now, although it hasn't<br />
always necessarily been clear to me what I wanted to<br />
do. I always say I accidentally became a swimming<br />
teacher and most of my flight path so far has been<br />
accidental, I'll never turn down an opportunity even if<br />
I'm not 100% sure because you never know where it<br />
will take you. Swim teaching took me out to Australia<br />
after university, where I worked with some<br />
amazing Australian coaches and taught swimming<br />
lessons in the sea surrounded by a shark proof net,<br />
which was such a surreal experience! I came home<br />
and knew I wanted to work with young people, but I<br />
wanted a new challenge and not to be in freezing cold<br />
water all day! I saw an advert for the job at King’s, at<br />
the time I wasn't sure if I wanted to teach at a primary<br />
or secondary school and thought that being a teaching<br />
scholar was a nice way to try it out and I've loved<br />
What inspires you?<br />
My biggest inspiration is definitely proving people wrong, I'll always remember a college tutor<br />
telling me I wasn't cut out for university so I went to university and got myself a First Class degree<br />
in History. Besides that I'm so lucky to have amazing parents who have always supported me,<br />
both of my parents would do anything to help anyone and I'd like to think I try my best to be like<br />
them. Also my twin because he is the most relaxed person you'll ever meet and honestly I wish I<br />
was a little more like him! Finally my grandad, who always said, 'you're only young once so take<br />
every opportunity you can' and over the last few years I have certainly tried to.
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